Photonest

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Hosted on Heroku: Photonest

Description

Photonest is a social-media platform where users can share, like and comment on images. It is a clone of Instagram.

Index

| Features List | Database Schema | User Stories | Wireframes | API Routes | Frontend Route

Technologies

Features

Posts

• Users can create a new post with an image and a caption.
• Users can edit and delete posts

Post Likes

• Users can like and unlike each other's posts

Comments

• Users can comment on posts
• Users can update comments on posts
• Users can delete comments

Comment Likes

• Users can like and unlike each other's comments

Getting Started

To run Photonest locally, please follow these steps:

DISCLAIMER: you must be able to create an AWS S3 bucket in order to properly store image files that are uploaded to the site. Upload functionality will not work without it

Clone the repository with:

git clone https://github.com/jonevanmoore/photonest.git

Create a database and database user. If using psql, the commands would be:

psql
CREATE USER photonest_app WITH PASSWORD <password> CREATEDB;
CREATE DATABASE photonest_dev WITH OWNER photonest_app;

Navigate to the backend folder and install python packages:

pipenv install
pipenv shell

Create and seed database with:

flask db upgrade
flask seed all

Start the server with:

flask run

Next, navigate to the react-app folder and run:

npm install

Start the app with:

npm start

You should now have Photonest running locally!

Future Features

Follows

Messages

Notifications